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Aspiewordsmith
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13 Nov 2009, 10:29 pm

Bullying can traumatise an autistic child. Whether the bullies are at school whether they are pupils or even teachers. Yes teachers have bullyed autistic children. I have been bullied all my life as a child even outside school even by my family. That was terrible in the early 1980's when autism awareness was totally non existent. I was at a school that said that I should have stuck up for myself but if I did then I would have been caned. I at this time aspiphobia was not in my vocabulary. The school said if I did not stick up for myself then I would have been sent back to the special needs school (called the Avenue) and there you did not do qualifications at 16 years old. I in my secondary school had some form of institutional discrimination. I was put in classes for pupils with the lowest abilities and that meant to do CSE (Certificate of Secondary Education) qualifications Which would leave an autistic young person unemployable when he or she left school. In those classes were the most unpleasant of the neurotypicals and can put an Asperger syndrome person off neurotypical people.

The bullying I experienced at school left me not wanting to talk to people I do not know or even sit next to people I do not know on a bus to this day. The bullying does not go when you have grown up. It does affect you even during adulthood.:arrow:



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13 Nov 2009, 11:09 pm

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Bullying can traumatise an autistic child. Whether the bullies are at school whether they are pupils or even teachers. Yes teachers have bullyed autistic children. I have been bullied all my life as a child even outside school even by my family. That was terrible in the early 1980's when autism awareness was totally non existent. I was at a school that said that I should have stuck up for myself but if I did then I would have been caned. I at this time aspiphobia was not in my vocabulary. The school said if I did not stick up for myself then I would have been sent back to the special needs school (called the Avenue) and there you did not do qualifications at 16 years old. I in my secondary school had some form of institutional discrimination. I was put in classes for pupils with the lowest abilities and that meant to do CSE (Certificate of Secondary Education) qualifications Which would leave an autistic young person unemployable when he or she left school. In those classes were the most unpleasant of the neurotypicals and can put an Asperger syndrome person off neurotypical people.

The bullying I experienced at school left me not wanting to talk to people I do not know or even sit next to people I do not know on a bus to this day. The bullying does not go when you have grown up. It does affect you even during adulthood.:arrow:


I was bullied myself throughout my school years, the worst of it after the age of 11. And yes, even teachers. I am told that when I was 8, a male teacher yelled in my ear 'I don't like you'. I didn't tell my parents about the kid bullying... I am not sure why I didn't. It was more emotional and psychological than anything else, even 'friends' ended up shifting to the bullies, of course.



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13 Nov 2009, 11:49 pm

Looks like the only way one can get resolution about bullying and such in many of these cases, is by resolving it in the coutroom through criminal prosecution of the bullies. If ya can't expel or repel, throw em in jail.

I might look at going to law school in the future and becoming a crown prosecutor...one can guess that most of my cases will most likely involve prosecuting school bullies.I'd be going to schools and making victims aware of their rights and make them aware that they can press criminal charges against their tormentors...along with an address for the crown prosecutors' office (LOL...i dont think schools would like that)....


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14 Nov 2009, 12:40 am

Dilbert wrote:
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The survey was prepared as part of an effort to pass legislation requiring that autistic children be taught bullying coping tactics as part of their individual educational plans.


The problem must be addressed at the source: stop the bullying.



Exactly.


That said some of us with Asperger's can bench 300 pounds (or more)

My youngest daughter has Learning Disabilities but is not on the spectrum.

When I am at her school I have noticed that my size seems to be quite a good deterrent to bullying (which at her school is confined to very nasty teasing).


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14 Nov 2009, 8:17 am

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Is this news?


I also wondered about that.


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14 Nov 2009, 9:03 am

Is this really a surprise to anyone? Bullies tend to target kids who are different, which definitely includes those with autism.